From: Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs.ext@nsn.com>
Subject: Re: Ada and licensing
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:19:02 GMT
Date: 2007-09-18T07:19:02+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1190099942.631460@xnews001> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1190095844.877071@xnews001
Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
>> A warning is in order here: Anon has a really skewed realitionship to
>> the GPL, so w/o checking I wouldn't even trust statements like "There
>> is a movement to have GPL license module only in Linux". Frictions
>> between the kernel license and "closed" modules have existed for a
>> long time and the GPL-only philosophy endorsed by Linux Torvalds and
>> others has been circumvented by external loaders for binary modules
>> etc. I wonder to which event in 2008 anon is alluding (is there really
>> a new development?).
>
> I'm not sure about this either, but Greg K-H is pushing this since a long
> time, maybe he just succeeded.
A short search revealed that Linus has refused to let it happen:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/475824
So no, there won't be any problem for proprietary kernel modules in 2008.
Bye...
Dirk
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-17 7:33 Ada and licensing Tomek Wałkuski
2007-09-17 8:04 ` Ludovic Brenta
2007-09-17 8:07 ` Tomek Wa kuski
2007-09-17 10:43 ` Ludovic Brenta
2007-09-17 9:27 ` Stephen Leake
2007-09-17 9:37 ` Tomek Wa kuski
2007-09-17 10:29 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-09-17 11:15 ` Martin Krischik
2007-09-17 11:33 ` Tomek Wa kuski
2007-09-17 13:10 ` anon
2007-09-17 16:47 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2007-09-17 16:50 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2007-09-17 17:26 ` Markus E L
[not found] ` <1190095844.877071@xnews001>
2007-09-18 7:19 ` Dirk Heinrichs [this message]
2007-09-18 13:33 ` Markus E L
2007-09-18 0:30 ` anon
2007-09-18 6:06 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2007-09-18 13:32 ` Markus E L
2007-09-17 10:09 ` anon
2007-09-17 11:12 ` Martin Krischik
2007-09-17 12:32 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-17 12:42 ` Tomek Wa kuski
2007-09-17 20:20 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2007-09-17 20:34 ` Wiktor Moskwa
2007-09-17 21:01 ` Ludovic Brenta
2007-09-18 4:48 ` Wiktor Moskwa
2007-09-17 14:05 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-09-19 9:59 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2007-09-19 19:50 ` Simon Wright
2007-09-19 20:05 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2007-09-19 22:25 ` Simon Wright
2007-09-20 8:30 ` Markus E L
2007-09-21 20:12 ` Simon Wright
2007-09-21 21:46 ` Ada and licensing + how to keep the RTL license from propagating :-) Markus E L
2007-09-22 23:25 ` Simon Wright
2007-09-23 8:54 ` Markus E L
2007-09-23 11:48 ` Simon Wright
2007-09-23 19:41 ` Markus E L
2007-09-19 23:15 ` Ada and licensing Jeffrey Creem
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